Andesiana
| Andesiana | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| Clade: | Eulepidoptera |
| Clade: | Incurvariina |
| Superfamily: | Andesianoidea Davis and Gentili, 2003 |
| Family: | Andesianidae Davis and Gentili, 2003 |
| Genus: | Andesiana Gentili, 1989 |
| Type species | |
| Andesiana lamellata Gentili, 1989 | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 1 genus and 3 species | |
Andesiana is a genus representing its own family Andesianidae and superfamily Andesianoidea, the "Andean endemic moths". It contains three species with a wingspan up to 5.4 cm. in female A. similis and 3.5 cm. in males. This far surpasses in size any previously known monotrysian moth. These large Microlepidoptera[1] are restricted to Andean South America, from where they were described originally in 1989 in the family Cossidae by their discoverer Patricia Gentili.